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Album	You	Global	Diff
Trafalgar Bee Gees	5	2.63	+2.37
Coles Corner Richard Hawley	5	3.03	+1.97
Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen	5	3.38	+1.62
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	5	3.7	+1.3
Harvest Neil Young	5	3.82	+1.18

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Album	You	Global	Diff
Mothership Connection Parliament	1	3.61	-2.61
Live! Fela Kuti	1	3.44	-2.44
Chirping Crickets Buddy Holly & The Crickets	1	3.29	-2.29
Talking Timbuktu Ali Farka Touré	1	3.13	-2.13
Illmatic Nas	2	3.6	-1.6
1999 Prince	2	3.6	-1.6
Lust For Life Iggy Pop	2	3.6	-1.6
Brothers The Black Keys	2	3.57	-1.57
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols Sex Pistols	2	3.45	-1.45
C'est Chic CHIC	2	3.34	-1.34

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Trafalgar

Bee Gees · 1 likes

5/5

This was just it. I didn’t know The Bee Gees were cool like dat.

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Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Top Songs: 1) Californication 2) Around the World 3) Otherside 4) Savior

Brothers

The Black Keys

2/5

Top Tracks: 1) Black Mud 2) The Only One 3) Too Afraid to Love You

Mothership Connection

Parliament

1/5

Funk really doesn’t seem to be my thing Top Tracks: 1) Supergroovalisticprosifunktication 2) Give Up the Funk

Hot Fuss

The Killers

4/5

I really like this kind of music, the first half of the album slaps but the second half falls off. Top Tracks: 1) Mr. Brightside (obviously) 2) Smile Like You Mean It 3) All These Things That I’ve Done 4) Somebody Told Me 5) Everything Will Be Alright

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

3/5

The musicianship is so good. I really like it musically, but I am not a fan of the singer at all. Top Tracks: 1) The Big Country 2) Take Me To The River 3) Thank You For Sending Me an Angel 4) Stay Hungry

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse

5/5

this was incredible. Top Tracks: 1) Rehab 2) Back To Black 3) Me & Mr. Jones 4) Tears Dry On Their Own 5) Love Is A Losing Game

Illmatic

Nas

2/5

lyrics were really impressive and I liked some of the beats. Hip-hop is just not my genre. Top Tracks: 1) Represent 2) Memory Lane

1999

Prince

2/5

not my genre I guess. Couldn’t get into it. Top Tracks: 1) 1999 2) Little Red Corvette

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

5/5

every song was a banger Top Tracks (of which there are many): 1) Dancin in the Dark 2) Glory Days 3) Born in the USA 4) Cover Me 5) Darlington County 6) Downbound Train 7) I’m On Fire

Headquarters

The Monkees

3/5

I’m a sucker for the sixties but it was kinda meh Top Tracks: 1) You Told Me 2) I’ll Spend My Life With You 3) Forget That Girl

Rising Above Bedlam

Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

2/5

this one was a little strange for me, didn’t like it Top Tracks: 1) Relight The Flame 2) Visions of You

Rubber Soul

Beatles

4/5

It’s the Beatles what more can I say Top Tracks: 1) In My Life 2) I’m Looking Through You 3) Michelle 4) Norwegian Wood 5) Girl

C'est Chic

CHIC

2/5

I am already very much over the funk genre Top Tracks: 1) Savoir Faire

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

blues is kinda hit or miss for me. this one was right down the middle. Top Tracks: 1) The Healer 2) My Dream 3) No Substitute

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

5/5

perfection. no notes. Top Tracks: 1) Suzanne 2) Master Song 3) So Long, Marianne 4) Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye 5) One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Bad

Michael Jackson

3/5

Not a Michael Jackson fan but I did like a few. Top Tracks: 1) Liberian girl 2) Smooth Criminal 3) I just can’t stop loving you

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

4/5

loved it but some were just okay Top Tracks: 1) In My Place 2) Clocks (actually in my top 10 songs EVER MADE) 3) The Scientist 5) Green Eyes 6) Warning Signs

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

this was not it

Dire Straits

3/5

I really like how mark knopfler plays the guitar, but not every song hit Top Tracks: 1) Down To The Waterline 2) Wild West End 3) Lions 4) Sultans of Swing

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Jeez I like drums and bass as much as the next guy, but I like other instruments as well… Top Tracks: 1) Heroes 2) Watching Windows 3) Share the Fall

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

3/5

It was pretty average for me. Don’t love Stevie wonder but this stuff was pretty good. Top Tracks: 1) Visions 2) Higher Ground 3) All In Love Is Fair

Graceland

Paul Simon

3/5

I really like Simon and Garfunkel but just Paul Simon was pretty boring Top Tracks: 1) All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints 2) Crazy Love Vol. II 3) You Can Call Me Al

Harvest

Neil Young

5/5

I love Neil Young. He’s got a unique voice, and I love the folk sound with guitar and harmonica. Top Tracks: 1) Heart of Gold 2) Old Man 3) There’s A World 4) Alabama 5) The Needle And The Damage Done 6) Words

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols

Sex Pistols

2/5

None of these really stuck out to me. It’s a little too angry for me I guess.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

4/5

Hehe this was really good. Can’t believe the Gnomeo and Juliet guy does his own music Top Tracks: 1) Tiny Dancer 2) Madman Across the Water 3) Levon 4) Holiday Inn 5) All the Nasties

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

“god it’s so painful, something that’s so close is still so far out of reach” Top Tracks: 1) AMERICAN GIRL (SO GOOD) 2) Breakdown 3) The Wild One, Forever 4) Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It) 5) Luna

Young Americans

David Bowie

3/5

I mean it was alright. Didn’t stick out to me. Top Tracks: 1) Somebody Up There Likes Me 2) Across the Universe

Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen

4/5

I didn’t realize before Springsteen went Rock and Roll it was just him and an acoustic guitar. Think I’d like to hear some of these songs with more instruments. Top Tracks: 1) Atlantic City 2) Highway Patrolman 3) My Father’s House

Close To You

Carpenters

4/5

I like this more than I would expect. A nice blend of folk and old rock. Top Tracks: 1) (They Ling To Be) Close To You 2) Lover Is Surrender 3) Mr. Guder 4) We’ve Only Just Begun 5) Maybe It’s You 6) Help

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

2/5

I really haven’t liked any bowie albums we’ve had. Thought I would. Top Tracks: 1) Success 2) Sixteen

Chirping Crickets

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

1/5

Man I really didn’t like this

Roxy Music

3/5

It was quite meh Top Track: 1) Ladytron

On The Beach

Neil Young

4/5

I don’t think there’s a Neil young album out there worse than a 4 Top Tracks: 1) On The Beach 2) See The Sky About To Rain 3) Vampire Blues 4) Motion Pictures 5) Ambulance Blues

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Ah the perfect blend of folk and rock. Simon and Garfunkel are so much better as a duo. Top Tracks: 1) Homeward Bound 2) Scarborough Fair/Canticle 3) Patterns 4) Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall 5) The Dangling Conversation 6) A Poem On The Underground Wall 7) Silent Night / Seven O’ Clock News

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

1/5

I don’t see myself ever listening to one of these songs for fun

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

3/5

I really like this guys slower songs, but the high energy ones are not my jam. Could listen to the slower ones over and over though. Top Tracks: 1) Let Love Rule 2) My Precious Love 3) I Build This Garden For Us 4) Does Anyone Out There Even Care 5) Rosemary 6) Be

Live!

Fela Kuti

1/5

not for me at all

Smile

Brian Wilson

2/5

This week of albums has been testing my willpower. Can I please get a good album?? Top Tracks: 1) Good Vibrations 2) Cabin Essence 3) Roll Plymouth Rock

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

I like the genre, maybe a bit too rock for me Top Tracks: 1) The Sprawl 2) Cross the Breeze 3) Candle (Restored) 4) A) The Wonder

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

3/5

This was a really good album that I could put on in the background just to hear the guitar playing Top Tracks: 1) All Along The Watchtower 2) Voodoo Chile

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

3/5

I really liked the slower, non-hip hop songs. Top Tracks: 1) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 2) Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You 3) ExFactor 4) To Zion 5) Tell Him 6) When It Hurts So Bad

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

5/5

every song was so perfectly my vibe

Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Spirit

3/5

I liked this. Psychedelic rock is kinda my jam, but more in a Pink Floyd way than this.

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Pretty basic album. Like the rock, but The Rolling Stones are kinda meh